There are two "teachers" in the Spring 2013 series: John List, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and Álvaro José Riascos Villegas, Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and Executive, Quantil.

There is a long tradition in mathematical logic (at least since Hintikka in the 1950s) of using games as a way of defining truth of mathematical sentences. This is an alternative approach to the classical compositional semantics definition of truth due to Tarski. Besides a few very preliminary research topics in which the author has been working we shall discuss informally the main ideas of this literature: the semantic game, the separation game and the model existence game in propositional, first order and IF logic. The idea is that by learning how logicians have used game theory for the advancement of mathematical logic, we can gain insights and learn some basic tools that may be useful for studying the logic and language of game theory.

Thursday, May 19
9:30-10:45Jacobs 166"Mis-perception and Stochastic Choice: Theory and Tests"Supplementary Material: Part One and Part Two

2009-2010

There are two "teachers" in the Fall 2009 series: Benny Moldovanu, Chair of Economic Theory II,
University of Bonn, who is visiting the CET and Math Center, and Matthew Jackson, Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University.

Themini-course will provide an overview of some recent research on social network formation as well as how network patterns of interactions affect behavior. This includes discussion of recent models of network formation combining random and strategic approaches, as well as studies of how network structure affects learning, both Bayesian and non-Bayesian, and theoretical and empirical studies of other behavioral contagions and diffusion.

The inaugural
'teacher' in the series is Professor Arthur
Robson of Simon Fraser University. Robson is the Canada
Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution and Fellow
of the Econometric Society. His mini-course will be on economics
and evolution.